Historical detectives

This story explains why Judge Dee was late for the family dinner during the Paper Lantern Festival. This event marks the end of a long New Year celebration; ...

The mysterious death of two wandering students, the brutal murder of the wife of an antiquities dealer, the death of an old woman-procurer at the hands of an...

Brother Cadfael was nearly sixty years old, seventeen of which he had been tonsured, when he set foot in the shadow of the Benedictine monastery. What events...

A dead employer's legacy of five thousand pounds allows spinster Hannah Pym to resign from housekeeping and find adventure travelling the English countrys...

No sooner does Miss Pym board her next stagecoach than she finds herself embroiled in the plight of Miss Belinda Earle, a spirited heiress banished to Bat...

The story “Fireplace with a Secret” is the winner of the “Criminal Forget-Me-Nots” competition, and received a lot of excellent reviews from readers and jury...

The hero of the series is psychology professor Maurice Jacob, who privately investigates mysterious incidents that smack of a fair amount of mysticism. As be...

Annotation: Mystical detective story. The first part "Cold Waters". Petersburg 19th century. The corpse of a salon singer is found in the Winter Canal river,...

From Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine - May 1998

The tales of Sister Fidelma (such as this one), set in 7th century Iréland, nave, in one respect, a c...